Rocky & Rhoda's Lesbian Past

Rocky and Rhoda (Ariel Speedwagon and Damien Luxe) are America's longest-running, hardest-touring, and most beloved lesbian performance duo. This July they premiere Rocky and Rhoda's Lesbian Past, a vaudeville and theatre extravaganza featuring acrobatics, songs, maps, the queer art of genealogy, visits from friends, historical reenactments, and very big questions about history, herstory, and the legacies we inherit.

How long have queers been fighting? How do you resolve the evil parts of your history? Just how many lesbian bars are there in the world? Rocky and Rhoda's Lesbian Past take on these questions and more, gold sequins and all.https://www.facebook.com/events/854265011319408/Damien Luxe is a liberationist multimedia artist who has toured solo and troupe performance for a decade. She is co-founder of Heels on Wheels [2010-2015], a working-class-led, multi-racial queer femme performance troupe which produces an annual national literary and art tour, and a monthly salon in Brooklyn. She has led media & documentation teams for Femme Conferences, Work Hard/Stay Hard, and more. She holds an MA in American Studies, and a Certificate in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy from the CUNY Graduate Center and works as an archival cataloging hacker by day: www.femmetech.org. Weird videos, radical narratives, and a feminist, dystopic, science fiction novel can be found online at: damienluxe.com / tw: @hadassahdamien / ig: @ladydluxe

Ariel “Speedwagon” Federow is an interdisciplinary performing artist, emcee and dancer. She works as a company member with the Ballez, the AO Movement Collective, and Butch Burlesque. She’s choreographed genital puppets for dyke marches across Canada with Coral Short, done vaudeville about tenant’s rights with Daniel Rosza Lang/Levitsky, and tap danced for liberation with Jenny Romaine and the Aftselokhis Spectacle Committee. Her own work and collaborations have been seen at LaMama ETC, Dixon Place, the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, Everybooty, Pussy Faggot, and plenty of other places. Head reporter, Sarah Jenny News Network. 2012 Hemispheric Institute Affiliated Emerging Artist. Miss JewSA 5772. Bingo host. Clown about town. arielspeedwagon.com // @arielariel on twitter